Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-02-08
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
SEARCHING THE RUINS
For Victims Of The Rail-
road Horror.
SCENES OF SAD INTEREST.
The Dead Now Placed At
Thirty-Five.
PARNELL MAKES A SPEECH
And Endorses The Plan OIL
Campaign.
PARNELL MAKES A SPEECH

And Endorses The Plan OF
Campaign.
THE DOCTORS ON THEIR ROUNDS
Among the Survivors OF the Vermont
DIsaster-The Search I'm the Ruins
Goes BrIskly On-A Curious Dispute
over enc of the Bodies-The Dead
House Tightly Locked and a Rail-
| road Official on Guard-Many Incl
dents of Painful Interest Told by The
Lucky Ones who Escaped.
HARTFORD, VT, Feb. EARLY this morn
ing the doctors made their rounds among the
injured and found all greatly improved, even
those whose condition was considered most
| dangerous. Quite number will be allowed
to go to their homes to night. A bureau of
information has been established. All tele-
graphic and other inquiries should be direct
| ed to Mr.. Charles P. Tarbell and they will be
answered at once. That gentleman received
| dispatches this morning stating that the
Kennedy family of five, thought to have been
| lost, have been found all right in Montreal.
| Work was resumed upon the wreck at an
early hour and by noon nearly all the pieces
| of the broken cars had been pulled from the
clutch of the ice and it was decided that
| no more bodies were there. The top of the
| third car from the rear was extricated in
| large sections. No whole bodies were found,
| but parts of mans thigh, some small bones
and flesh, probably of woman, a number of
| smaller fragments and part of woman's felt
| hat with feather were discovered. It could
| not be determined how many victims these
fragments represented. Every shovelful of
| ice, iron and ashes is carefully searched for
| money, jewelry or whatever else might assist
| in the Identification of the killed. This fore
| noon lady's Geneva gold watch, So in Can
adian money, mans fourteen carat gold
| ring, partly melted silver dollar, the iron
work of lsdy's bag and near it purse con-
tanning two quarters and several pennies were
found. 1t is feared that several bodies got
through the ice and were hoated down the
river. A section hand states that yesterday
he saw woman's body sucked under the ice
before he could grasp it.
1t is just reported that the wife of e1-
Governor Horace Fairbanks of St. Johns
bury, VT, the manufacturer of the famous
scales, is among the lost. The Governor was
here yesterday and vainly searched for his
wife's body. 1t is said that her cloak and
watch have been found. A. E. Hazen,
farmer of this place, is also supposed to have
perished Mr.. Blaisdell of Fitchburg, who
was here yesterday seeking his wife's re-
mains, mas just learned that che is safe in
Montreal, she having at the last moment
elected to take tRe Rutland route. Cha rles
B. Hebard of Cambridgeport, Mass, who
is supposed to be among the dead, is wanted
in Boston for the embezzlement of $780,
Superintendent Small of Boston telegraphed
Chief o. A. Randall of this place this morn
ing to arrest him if it was found that he was
not dead. He was making his escape to Can
ada. His name is not included among the
injured, but he may have given fictitious
name and continued on his way. The fol
lowing additional persons have been ascer-
tanned to be missing and are supposed to be lost:
Homer Riggs of Middlebury, VT, whom
his brother, s. B. Riggs, says was certainly
and Peter or Fred Blais of Springfield,
Mass, who have been inquired for by
Charles Hope of that city.
No further bodies have been found. The
total number of killed is now put down at
thirty five, but with the chance that it may
be more. Every once in while the work
men find pieces of bones probably parts of
tn ose bodies recovered. But few strangers
are here now looking for friends. There is
quite q dispute going on over the
Identification of one of the burned bodies
between friends of George J. Bell of Bel
lows Falls and Mrs. Deyineau of Winooski.
Both claim the remains. Apparel. a watch
and other articles belonging to Bell were
found with the corpse, and SO it was conclud
ed that it must be his. Two doctors who
have examined the body find positive evil
dence that it is that of a woman by its
osseous formation. 1t is thought that
Bell and Mrs. Devineau must have died near
eacl other, and that is how the remains be-
came mixed up. However, neither of the
claimants will give in and there it remains.
w. B. Hatch, chief clerk of the superin-
tendent of motive power of the Central Yer
mont railroad, who was placed in charge of
the recovered property, to day assumed
charge of the bodies, ignoring the town au-
thorities who have previously had the care of
them. Persons in search of information
complain that they are now put off and
snubbed by Hatch, who guards the key of
the dead house as his life. The town under
taker threatens to take possession of the
key and turn it over to the
selectmen. Hatch had trouble with
three selectmen yesterday at the
scene of the wreck. Andrew A. Wheeler of
Fitchburg, who was considerably bruised and
had one hand jammed, went home to-day, as
did Mr.. Fisher. Mr.. Frank Pratt, of Spring
field, will go home tomorrow in the
care of friends: The remains of D. D. Wood
ward of Waterbury, Vt, were placed in
casket, boxed and shipped to his late home
this noon.
Professor Fletcher, chief of the engineering
department of Dartmouth college, who has
made close exam n tion of the track leading
to the bridge, says there were three rails torn
up at the point where the car Pilgrim prob
ably left the track. These rails all show Wis
ible signs of defects in material and con-
structlon. He thinks that one axle on the
car Pilgrim broke, causing the derailment of
the car and that was the only car which left
the track until the bridge was reached.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt, Feb. T.
The body of Edgar Wilder of Dayton, Ohio,
drummer, was taken to st. Al
bwa this afternoon by Ell. R. Wilder, of
Swanzey. The down express this noon car
ried the bodies of several of the poor railroad
men who met death at their post of danger.
The remains of the colored porter of the
Pullman Pilgrim, Hammer, enclosed In fine
casket, were sent to friends in Boston. The
porter of the st. Adams went over the Con-
necticut road to Springfield. The body of
Conductor Burgess of the Pullman cars was
taken to Boston, where he had a wife
and two children. Burgess body was
among the best preserved of those found. His
injuries were confined to the lower extreml-
ties, one leg being burned down from the
Boston lodge. Shortly before noon the
search was considered as good as
accomplished by the railroad Of
Acials There were murmurs of
disapproval at this decision by persons who
had come in search of missing friends. Gen
eral Managing Superintendent Foss offered to
go over the wreckage again if necessary.
Selectman John Henry Hazen, typical
Yankee, voiced the sentiment of the grum-
blsls; he thought the search was not as
complete as it should be, and he thought
there were bodies frozen in the ice or at the
bottom of the river. Therefore the ground
and lee will be overhauled again and few
| bodies will be found no doubt, but several
probably will never be-
The patients at the hotels to-day were do
ing well. but vet the smell of ether was per-
ceptible to the nostrils and served re-
minder of the hospital. At the Junction